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<p>[QUOTE="John Johnson, post: 8110380, member: 96020"]I have always liked Kennedy Half Dollars. When I first started collecting as a kid, they were my first 'step up' from wheat cents. So I did want to complete a set, but not the entire set. Rather, I decided to put together a set of the 1964-1970 Kennedy Halves, because of their silver content (of course). </p><p><br /></p><p>When I put together slabbed sets, I like them to be in the same slab so the end result looks like a set that I think belongs together. I last completed a set of PCGS slabbed Peace Dollars, so this time I thought I'd go with ICG. I think I made two mistakes here. First, I believe ICG overgrades their coins; I didn't know that before I started. Second, there are not as many ICG slabbed coins out there as PCGS, so what I thought would be a simple set to complete became a challenge. The end result is some of the coins are not slabbed the same as the others. But I wanted to be done and move on to something else...</p><p><br /></p><p>My photography skills are improving, I think, and I really believe these would have been much better if I had done them one coin at a time, but I got lazy and these images are the results. I promise I will get better.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spent just over $400 completing this set. I overpaid for a few of them, I know, but just a few, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411076[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411077[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411077[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411078[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411079[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Johnson, post: 8110380, member: 96020"]I have always liked Kennedy Half Dollars. When I first started collecting as a kid, they were my first 'step up' from wheat cents. So I did want to complete a set, but not the entire set. Rather, I decided to put together a set of the 1964-1970 Kennedy Halves, because of their silver content (of course). When I put together slabbed sets, I like them to be in the same slab so the end result looks like a set that I think belongs together. I last completed a set of PCGS slabbed Peace Dollars, so this time I thought I'd go with ICG. I think I made two mistakes here. First, I believe ICG overgrades their coins; I didn't know that before I started. Second, there are not as many ICG slabbed coins out there as PCGS, so what I thought would be a simple set to complete became a challenge. The end result is some of the coins are not slabbed the same as the others. But I wanted to be done and move on to something else... My photography skills are improving, I think, and I really believe these would have been much better if I had done them one coin at a time, but I got lazy and these images are the results. I promise I will get better. I spent just over $400 completing this set. I overpaid for a few of them, I know, but just a few, I think. [ATTACH=full]1411076[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411077[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411077[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411078[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1411079[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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